TeleTracking recently outlined these symptoms as:
- Long emergency deparment wait times / divert hours / excessive boarding times
- Transfer admission declining and transfer declinations increasing
- Request-to-admit times and Left Without Being Seen numbers on the rise
- Chronic delays, hold times and schedule changes leading to decreases in physician and caregiver satisfaction
- Decreasing HCAHPS scores
- Existing capacity never seems to sync up with patient volumes; or, empty beds lead patients to other facilities
In order to combat them, here are the top five integrated strategies TeleTracking forsees using to transform access to care in 2016:
- Working smarter at engaging and aligning community physicians
- Centralizing patient placement, system-wide
- Improving and streamlining access for under served populations
- Improving staff utilization and satisfaction
- Securing enterprise visibility for continual patient access transformation
To learn more about how to implement these strategies, read the full article here.
